Coaches won’t ‘brother in law’ tonight

With all the injuries the Cowboys have, it was suggested at Wade Phillips’ news conference Wednesday that he might ask Raiders coach Tom Cable to his keep his gameplan fairly simple tonight.

Phillips made it clear that won’t happen.

“I can tell you…no, no,” Phillips said. “Because I don’t believe that’s the way you play football. I’m in charge of my group. He’s in charge of his. And whoever plays, plays. We are playing to win the game. We are not playing, ‘OK, we’ll play this and do this when you do that. Those kind of things.”

The Bengals blitzed the Cowboys quite a bit in preseason opener Sunday, but most teams usually keep their schemes “vanilla” in the preseason. But Phillips is right: Teams have their own agendas in the preseason and shouldn’t be asked to change them because the other team has some injuries.